package festival 1.96~beta-10ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
This bug report was converted into a question: question #165564: package festival 1.96~beta-10ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1.
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| festival (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
I just saw this on the top bar in Lucid. I have no idea what this is or why it is being installed, but I know that this is one of the things that failed to install properly during 9.10 - 10.04 upgrade
ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: festival 1.96~beta-10ubuntu1
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-33-generic i686
NonfreeKernelMo
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Jul 21 12:09:18 2011
ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
SourcePackage: festival
Title: package festival 1.96~beta-10ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
| Saurav Ghosh (sauravg) wrote | #1 |
| Andreas Moog (ampelbein) wrote | #2 |
| Changed in festival (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Invalid |
This is the error:
Setting up festival (1.96~beta-
useradd: cannot lock /etc/passwd; try again later.
adduser: `/usr/sbin/useradd -d /home/festival -g audio -s /bin/false -u 118 festival' returned error code 1. Exiting.
dpkg: error processing festival (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Remove the /etc/passwd lockfile and all is well. Since this is not a bug but a problem on your system, converting to question.